Straight Talk

By Matthew Yglesias
Everybody knows that John McCain is both a principled straight-talker and also an environmentally-minded Republican in the manner of Teddy Roosevelt. Therefore it can't be the case that his "solution" to America's economic problems is a silly, panderific proposal to have a summertime gas tax holiday. I must have imagined the whole thing.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/04/straight-talk/44371/